The completion of the University Heights Motorway (electric streetcar) brought new faces to places unseen by many prior to 1904. With the ease of the railway people advanced out of the burgeoning downtown to explore the lofty hilltop they would soon call home. Entrepreneurs took the opportunity to capitalize on the uphill movement, creating grand(…)

Ever wonder how Balboa Park was named? What structures stood in various locations in 1915? Who were some of the individuals who helped shape the landscape and built environment, and what did they originally envision it to look like? Were the buildings in the Park today, copies or interpretations of real structures in other parts(…)

This hour-long, easy paced walking tour reveals how a Depression-era San Diego pulled itself up out of the duldrums to create a spectacular world showcase that celebrated Progress of Man. Learn how DC Collier, San Diego’s 1915 Exposition cheerleader played a pivotal role in Chicago’s Century of Progress that served as inspiration for San Diego’s(…)

From sailing ships to racing yachts, San Diegans have enjoyed the ocean, rivers and lakes around us. Learn about the Orizaba, San Diego’s “Mayflower” of the West, ZLAC rowing club, and Stars & Stripes 87, America’s cup winner. Read Sheep on a Ship storybook, make a boat craft and sail some boats in the cascade(…)

Senior guard Shoni Schimmel has been named a national semifinalist for the 2014 Women’s Naismith Trophy, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced on Thursday. Schimmel was one of the 10 players named a semifinalist.

Lotsa Mischief sailed to an easy victory in the $75,000 Turf Paradise Derby Saturday at the Phoenix Oval.

Piloted by Skyler Whiteshield, Lotsa Mischief ($6.80) pressed the pace early on and then drew away in the stretch for a 3 ½ length victory over Lawly’s Goal with the favorite My Rochester third in the field of eight 3-year-olds.

Daft Punk’s publicist writes in to let us know that the duo is repped by CAA, while ICM was the agency that contacted the National Park Service. So maybe Daft Punk isn’t planning on playing any shows this summer, and god only knows what ICM was hoping to accomplish by applying for the permit.

The Battle of Little Bitcoin: Native American Tribe Launches Its Own Cryptocurrency

Standing on the banks of the Little Bighorn River last year, a son of the once-mighty Oglala Lakota Tribe made a promise to continue his ancestors’ fight against the United States. Only this time the war wouldn’t be fought with arrows or bullets, but with QR codes and cryptography.

Sarah Ortegon boasts quite the resume. She accepted the title of Miss Native American USA in 2013. The same year, she graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver after studying abroad in Italy. She also traveled to Eastern Europe with the dance group Native Pride Dancers and performed in the Republic of Moldova.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, founded in 1887, amassed many of its treasures during the so-called golden age of museum collecting – an era well known for unprecedented institution-building, less so for cultural sensitivity

Should Schools Keep Native American Mascots if Tribes Give Them Permission?

In the past 50 years, more than two-thirds of Native American mascots have been eliminated across the country. Today, fewer than 1,000 remain. The shift has been most successful at the local and state levels, but a new bill suggests the movement still faces resistance in some states.

Mystery of Native Americans’ missing 10,000 years solved: People survived Ice Age living on wooded land between Siberia and Alaska 25,000 years ago

It was a mystery how the ancestors of Native Americans survived the Ice Age.

But now a team of international scientists think they might have solved the mystery and it has to do with the ancient people living in a wooded tundra area after splitting from their Asian relatives 25,000 years ago.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) vetoed a controversial bill that would have allowed business owners to refuse service to certain customers based on religious reasons.SB 1062 drew national headlines. It was seen as an anti-gay discriminatory measure.

Justice at a distance may very well be justice denied.That’s why it’s important to recognize and study the recent work done by the Tribal Law and Order Commission, mandated by federal law to study justice on the reservation and come up with policy suggestions. The commission has spent the last two years working on a report — a roadmap — for policymakers about law and order on reservations across the U.S.

Justice at a distance may very well be justice denied.That’s why it’s important to recognize and study the recent work done by the Tribal Law and Order Commission, mandated by federal law to study justice on the reservation and come up with policy suggestions. The commission has spent the last two years working on a report — a roadmap — for policymakers about law and order on reservations across the U.S.

Michelle Roberts calls on the Obama administration to intervene in a disenrollment dispute within the Nooksack Tribe of Washington: In the wake of the Cedarville tragedy, will you now honor your trust responsibility to all American Indians to prevent such disenrollment-atrocities?

When Pascua Yaqui (or Yoeme) woodcarver Louis Valenzuela goes to work carving a pascola (pahko’ola) mask, viewers had best stand back lest they get in the way of his artistic weapon of choice: a very large and very sharp machete. “I started out painting tribal (Yoeme or ‘The People’) themes on wood and canvas, subjects such as deer dancers and matachines, learning the color palette and how to mix paints to adorn Yaqui polyform sculptures,” Valenzuela explains.

The Senate Judiciary Committee this morning approved the nomination of Diane Humetewa to serve as a federal judge in Arizona.Humetewa is a member of the Hopi Tribe. If confirmed by the full Senate, she will be the first Native American woman in the federal judiciary.